How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. Oakland launched OAK Wi-Fi, a broadband program, in late 2020 using $7.7 The homework gap isn’t new. We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” he said.
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